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3. LU WAS WIDELY REPORTED TO HAVE SAID THAT THE DRAFTING OF THE BASIC LAW WAS CHINA'S INTERNAL CONCERN, AND THERE WAS NO NEED TO CONCULT BRITAIN. IN RESPONSE TO A SUGGESTION THAT FOREIGN LEGAL HE EXPERTS SHOULD BE INVITED TO TAKE PART IN THE DRAFTING WORK, STATED EMPHATICALLY THAT THE BASIC LAW SHOULD BE DRAFTED BY CHINESE PEOPLE, ALTHOUGH THERE WAS NO OBJECTION TO LISTENING TO THE VIEWS OF FOREIGN EXPERTS IN THE DRAFTING PROCESS. HE ALSO SAID THAT SOME PROVISIONS OF THE JOINT DECLARATION, WHICH WERE TO BE EMBODIED IN THE BASIC LAW, WERE WIDE IN SCOPE AND WOULD BELOPEN TO INTERPRETATION THE INTERPRETATION TO BE ADOPTED IN THE BASIC LAW WOULD TAKE INTO ACCOUNT ''THE PEOPLE'S VIEWS''. LU ALSO SAID THAT HE PERSONALLY THOUGHT THAT THE BASIC LAW COULD BE SELF-SUFFICIENT'' SO THAT THE HK SAR COURTS COULD TAKE DECISIONS OF FINAL ADJUDICATION ON THE BASIS OF THE BASHC LAW ITSELF WITHOUT THE NEED TO REFER TO THE
CHINESE CONSTITUTION.
(C) FUTURE PROGRAMME OF WORK
4. LU STATED PUBLICLY THAT THE SECOND MEETING OF THE BLDC MN APRIL WOULD DISCUSS THE STRUCTURE OF THE BASIC LAW, AND THAT A REPORT ON THE VIEWS COLLECTED BY HIS EXPERT GROUP WOULD BE COMPILED FOR THIS MEETING. IN TALKING TO THE PRESS, HE SAID THAT WHETHER THE DRAFTING OF THE GOVERNMENTAL-STRUCTURE SECTION OF THE BASIC LAW SHOULD BE ADVANCED TO 1987 WOULD BE DISCUSSED BY THE BLDC. PRIVATELY, HOWEVER, HE TOLD HKG OFFICIALS THAT T WOULD NOT (NOT) BE BROUGHT FORWARD FROM THE ORIGINAL TAMING OF 1988.
(D) POLITICAL SYSTEM OF THE SAR
,, 5. ON THE EXPRESSION HK PEOPLE RULING HK'', LU WAS FIRST REPORTED TO HAVE SAID THAT IT WAS UNSCIENTIFIC AND WAS NOT (NOT) DEVISED BY THE CHINESE LEADERS. HOWEVER, ON SUBSEQUENT OCCASIONS, HE REITERATED THAT IT REPRESENTED CHINESE POLICY, THAT ITS SPIRIT WAS EMBODIED IN ANNEX # TO THE JOINT DECLARATION, AND THAT T WOULD BE SET OUT IN THE BASIC LAW IN MORE PRECISE TERMS. LU ALSO SAID THAT CADRES FROM CHINA WOULD NOT BE REGARDED AS HK PEOPLE. ONLY THOSE WHO HAVE LIVED HERE FOR 7 YEARS AND HAVE THE RIGHT OF ABODE WOULD BE SO REGARDED.
6. ON THE QUESTION OF THE EXECUTIVE BEING ACCOUNTABLE TO THE LEGISLATURE, LU FIRST DEFINED ACCOUNTABILITY AS THE OBLIGATION TO GIVE ACCOUNT OF, TO EXPLAIN AND TO CONSULT.'' HOWEVER, ON A SUBSEQUENT OCCASION, HE TOLD THE PRESS THAT MANY VIEWS HAD BEEN EXPRESSED AND WOULD BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT IN DEFINING ITS PRECISE
MEANING IN THE BASIC LAW.
7. ON THE POSITION OF THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE, LU WAS WIDELY PEPORTED TO HAVE SAID, AT THE MEETING WITH THE JOINT CONFERENCE OF LABOUR UNIONS ON THE BASIC LAW, THAT THE JOINT DECLARATION STIPULATED THAT THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE WOULD BE APPOINTED BY THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT, BUT THAT SOME PEOPLE WERE NOW THINKING THAT THE LEGISLATURE COULD
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